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“America’s Teetering Tower of Unkeepable Promises”
4 comments on “America’s Teetering Tower of Unkeepable Promises”George Will, on the enormity of what just occurred: On Sunday, as will happen every day for two decades, another 10,000 baby boomers became eligible for Social Security and Medicare. And Congress moved closer to…
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Steyn Nails It: Happy Dependence Day
“The governmentalization of health care will accelerate, private insurers will no longer be free to be “insurers” in any meaningful sense of that term (ie, evaluators of risk), and once that’s clear we’ll be on…
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Health Care: A Uniquely Partisan New Entitlement
If Obamacare passes — and as the endgame plays out today, that feels like the way to bet — it will pass without a single Republican vote in either house of Congress. Historic legislation indeed:…
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Slap a Warning Label on the CBO Scoring
Beware the government bearing numbers.
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The Fierce Urgency of “Demon Pass”
Megan McArdle (emphasis added): But there is one thing of which I am nearly perfectly certain: If we pass this thing, no American politician, left or right, is going to cut any of these programs,…
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My International Consulting Practice
Melisa Antic is building a business based on helping English-speaking expats relocate and settle in to living in Belgrade.
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Dear Census-Taker: I’m a Conservative, Liberal, Subversive, Patriotic American
It’s Census time, and there’s a nefarious conservative plot afoot to undermine the gummint by subverting the racial purity of the decennial enumeration. The idea is to answer the racial question by ignoring the familiar…
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Nice to See an Oscar for a Largely Pro-U.S. War Movie
College buddy Tom Streithorst is out with an article in the UK’s Prospect Magazine titled “Why The Hurt Locker shouldn’t have won,” based on Tom’s extensive experience as a journalist embedded with U.S. forces in…
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House Offers Best Hope for Stopping Obamacare
While much of the discussion about health care has focused on the lack of 60 Democratic votes in the Senate, the House may pose an even bigger obstacle. For legislative process geeks, John Podhoretz explains…
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Brave Muslim Cleric Issues Fatwa Against Terrorism
Three hearty cheers for Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, a Pakistan-born Muslim scholar in London, who has issued a fatwa declaring that suicide bombing and other acts of terrorism are prohibited by Islam. Pointing out that terrorists…